Apostasy

Any apostates here? Ex-whatever, converting to another religion or becoming atheist. Why did you leave your religion?

I left because I had a crisis of faith, and for the first time I started reading sources critical of things like miracles and the Catholic understanding of the early church. Overall they were more convincing that the Catholic sources.

>born
>baptized Presbyterian as young babe
>grow up in church
>comfy life, no one really cares about the teachings
>most people there just to socialize/hang out with other upper class wasp-types
>join army
>churches in army are too real to be fun
>now just sit quietly in room and shit post on Veeky Forums

I left the catholic church because Christianity makes absolutely no sense to me, plus I hated to pay extra taxes. Happy non-rel now.

I was an atheist but began to give spirituality a shot. It really changed life and opened my mind to new things.

Degenerates like you should be put on a cross.

I left the Mormon religion and all other religions in fact, after I studied religions in college. All the religions out there claim to be the only true religion, but I can clearly see that religion was created for the solely purpose of opression and control of humanity.

I was never that scholarly of a Christian, mind you, but I was very culturally Christian, going to church regularly, knew a bit of the bible, volunteered for stuff, etc. Then, one day, I contracted Hansen's disease. Got it cured reasonably quick, with the only lasting damage a bit of numbness around the fingertips and bottoms of my feet, but word got out. And you say the word "leper" around Christians, or maybe just baptists, and things get weird. Lots of people asking where my sores were (I didn't have them) and EVERYONE wanting to touch me. We literally had people coming in from out of state just so they could press up against the leper and be blessed by it.

Couldn't understand it, so I started reading the Bible in-depth. My first realization was that the "Leprosy" described in the Old Testament had nothing to do with the disease that I had, but as I started reading along, I found more and more glaring problems in things like internal consistency.

So I just left it behind. I'm not really sure if I would have from either of the two major causes on their own, and I'm not sure whether the social aspect of the theological aspect is more important. I like to think the latter, but I don't 100% trust my own thought processes in a matter like this. But now I'm pretty fedora-tippy.

>be an eastern orthodox
>go to church every sundays and do home prayers with family
>go to college
>forget to pray and go to church
>nothing bad happens to you

fuck religion, its a waste of time and delays the progression of the mind

I listened to George carlin's comedy and thought on it . now I'm an atheist . I try not to be obnoxious tho . i cringe when I think of how edge Lord I was in the past .
his bio audio book is made more by the fact that his bro reads it and sounds like him . would listen again.